CLINICAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

Most of this therapist's experience working as a professional counselor and advocate has been with an adolescent population (i.e., 12-26).  This therapist enjoys working with adolescents and their families in an individual and group setting.  This therapist has worked in an inpatient and outpatient setting with youth from the Tribal and Non-tribal Department of Social/Human Services, Probation, Youth Corrections, and Parole as a clinician, child protection social caseworker, clinical director, and facility director. 

PHILOSOPHY OF TREATMENT:

Emmet follows a cross-cultural eclectic approach when it comes to the psychological treatment of his clientele.  Emmet is proficient with Psychodynamic; Gestalt; Client-Centered; Rational-Emotive Behavioral/Cognitive-Behavioral; Reality; Multimodal; Culturally Competent; Family Systems; and Career Counseling Therapeutic Methods; including Psychodiagnostic assessment.  It is Emmet’s goal to assist those individuals and families needing assistance and services become aware of the abuse, neglect, and dysfunction that have affected their families over the generations, in order to assist them in their process of recovery.  Emmet provides the service and it is the choice(s) of the individual(s) and family, if change and recovery is to occur.

EDUCATION:

Master of Arts: Human Development,
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
March 15, 2002

Master of Arts: Psychological Counseling,
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY
October 18, 2000

Bachelor of Arts: East Asian Studies and Japanese Language
The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
May 18, 1998